AMD's efforts to bring back hardcore gamers to its ATI branded graphics chips just went into overdrive. Today the company announced the launch of the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2, a new graphics card that it claims is the fastest made yet (based on 3D Mark Vantage benchmarks). The reason? It has not one but two graphics processors on board and 2 Gigs of memory that bring a whopping 2.4 teraflops of proccessing power to your PC gaming rig.

If you have the money that is. You can go ahead and order one of these puppies now but it will cost $549 for the effort. If you want a somewhat slower clocked card, you can wait until next month with AMD plans to release the ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 for a "mere" $399.